Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 138

Ling Yuxuan smiled at the time.Because he was in a hurry, his father did not know how to get a small token from the emperor, so that he could temporarily "borrow" the local government's horse-drawn chariot and boat for his journey.The friendship between the emperor and his father is extraordinary.

Ling Yuxuan rushed to Changhe Town, Xiling, but the Xiao family hadn't prepared the dowry, and he hadn't bought the dishes for the banquet, so he could only wait patiently, and sent the matchmaker to Xiao's house.He originally wanted to visit Xiao's mansion at night to visit his fiancée, but he heard from Xiao Wencong that there are people working day and night in Xiao's mansion, and there are more than [-] tailors and embroiderers living in the back of his house, so he had no choice but to give up this idea.

The Xiao family knew that Ling Yuxuan was in a hurry, and wanted to send Xiao Wenqing, who might be killed in the fall, to his side as soon as possible. Knowing that his wedding team was already waiting in Changhe Town, they hurriedly made dowry and prepared dishes for the wedding banquet.

This time the prime minister's son's wedding ceremony, Xiling's respectable country gentry and local rich businessmen tried their best to establish a relationship with the Xiao family, as a connection for their own family in the future.As a result of the concerted effort, on July 27, the Xiao family sent a matchmaker to tell the matchmaker brought by Ling Yuxuan from the capital that everything was ready and she would come to meet the bride at an auspicious time tomorrow.

On July 28th, Ling Yuxuan's third day in Changhe Town, Xiling, the town was empty of thousands of people, and everyone ran to the street to watch the prime minister's son welcome his wife.

On the pier, firecrackers and drums were played in unison.On the huge warship, teams of well-trained servants walked down carrying gifts.The gong and drum team and the guard of honor led the way. The groom wore a gold crown and a red robe, and rode a white horse with a red silk hydrangea on his head. Behind the groom was a red sedan chair carried by eight people.This sedan chair was not brought by Ling Yuxuan from the capital, because it was very inconvenient, it was prepared by the magistrate of Xiling, and it was only used to take the bride to the groom's wedding boat.

Changhe Town is nearly [-] miles away from Xiaojia Village. The huge welcoming team set off in the morning, and it was already afternoon when they arrived at Xiaojia Village.Everyone had known for a long time that the wedding ceremony could not be completed in one day, so they ate and rested under the arrangement of the village head and patriarch of Xiaojia Village.The ritual continued in the early morning of the second day.

In the early morning of July 29, the gates of Xiao's residence were wide open.A dozen or so carriages with red happy characters were lined up in front of the gate, and Miss Xiao's dowry had already been loaded into the carriage, waiting to set off with the bride.

In the courtyard of Xiao Wenqing, the back house of the Xiao family, before dawn, the matchmaker Xi Niang and Quan Fu's ladies came to bathe and change Xiao Wenqing's clothes, twisted his face, combed his hair and put on makeup. Every step was meticulous. The lady speaks auspicious words, sings auspicious songs, eats red dates and longan soup...

In the front yard, after the welcoming team tidied up, the bridegroom brought them to Xiao's residence.The door of Xiao's mansion was closed tightly instead.According to the custom, the band that the groom called began to play reminder songs and fired cannons to remind the makeup.The door of Xiao's mansion opened a crack, and the man's matchmaker immediately stuffed in a big red envelope with a smile, which meant to open the door seal.

The gate of Xiao's mansion opened, and several servants wearing red belts began to set off firecrackers and fire whips. The three brothers Xiao Wenhua, Xiao Wenfeng, and Xiao Wencong, accompanied by the village head and patriarch, welcomed the groom and invited him to drink brown sugar water and eat red-shelled eggs.Ling Yuxuan had thought up makeup reminder poems on the way from the capital to Xiling. Although he was a little inferior to the Xiao family brothers who specialize in "literature", they were written by themselves after all. The poems were sincere and moved others.

In the back house, Xiao Wenqing's mother and daughter held hands, teary eyes facing each other.Mrs. Xiao was reluctant to marry her daughter who had just returned home, and Xiao Wenqing was reluctant to reunite with her mother and younger brother who were only three months old.Both of them whimpered softly as they spoke.Mrs. Xiao repeatedly told Xiao Wenqing to respect her parents-in-law, love her sister-in-law and respect her husband and son-in-law. Xiao Wenqing wept and told her that she was not filial and could not be filial in front of her mother.

The matchmaker Xi Niang kept persuading and urging, and finally took out the red hijab to cover Xiao Wenqing in full dress.

"The auspicious time has come, the bride is coming out of the pavilion—" the matchmaker cried, and Xi Niang and Lu E supported Xiao Wenqing from left to right.After Xiao Wenqing got up, he kowtowed three times and nine times to his mother, and then he left his boudoir sadly with the help of Xi Niang and Lu E, and went to the front yard.

The crystal and agate were sent by Mrs. Liu Hanlin to serve Xiao Wenqing. They will return to Liu Hanlin's mansion after they return to the capital.Mrs. Xiao prepared a dowry maid for her daughter according to the custom of rich families.The red plums and green calyx she allocated to Xiao Wenqing's side to serve her from the very beginning were the maids in her mansion who were of the right age, with a gentle temper and good looks.Hongmei has a crush in her heart, so she plucks up the courage to ask Mrs. Xiao, and Mrs. Xiao has to let Lue marry alone.

In the main hall of the front yard, Xiao Wenqing once again knelt down to Mrs. Xiao who had come to the front yard with her, and bid farewell to her brothers. Then, accompanied by her older brothers and younger brothers, she boarded the big red sedan chair.

"Crackling, bang——" "Beep, beep, beep... beep..." Amidst the sound of firecrackers and drums, the welcoming team returned, and the groom got on his horse and led the red sedan chair away. It was the younger brother of the Xiao family, guards, servants, and more than a dozen carriages carrying the dowry.

Because the wedding party was followed by a carriage, the speed was much slower. It was already evening when they set off from Xiaojia Village in the morning and arrived at the pier in Changhe Town.The bridegroom, the groom, the matchmaker, the maids and servants, and Xiao Wencong, the younger brother of the Xiao family who decided to send the bride off and went to the capital to meet the world, boarded the warship to have dinner and rest together, and the others started to carry the bride after dinner. dowry.The boat does not sail at night, and in the early morning of the second day, a burst of firecrackers was set off on the wedding boat, and the boat sailed.

(End of this chapter)